As the blood of Equestria ran cold with the flood of ancestral and racial pride, war was on the brink. Most were surprised that it hadn't happened yet, but their suspicions were about to be satisfied. As Rainbow Dash signed the declaration of war on the earth ponies and unicorns, you could almost feel the heart of a Equestria stop, turn black, and shrivel into nothingness. Upon hearing the news of war, both Applejack with Pinkie Pie and Rarity with Twilight Sparkled declared war. Ponyville was about to become the epicenter of a massive bloodbath; any innocent life still in the town better lock their doors, shut their windows, and pray to Celestia that nopony finds them...

As the massive armies of all sides grew stronger with reinforcements from Fillydelphia and Coltsburg, the numbers breezed past 100,000 strong. All sides skipped basic training and went straight into the massive formations that would destroy the world. The ponies marched onwards until they diverged in the center of Ponyville, each side believing the massive size of their army would intimidate and scare off the others. However that tactic was quite ineffective.

"Load the artillery!" rallied Applejack.

"Under-belly bombs ready pegasi!" beckoned Rainbow Dash.

All Rarity had to say for the unicorns was, "All horns up!"

"That's what she said!" giggled a random soldier, and after a jolly group laugh for a few seconds, they got back to business.

After the ready orders, all grew silent as they waited for someone to make the first move. But some earth pony had forgotten to tie his shoe, and as he bent down to tie it, he nudged a pegasus in the rump and he flew off. Soon, the others took to the sky and began the bombings down on their enemies!

"A scene from hell.." said an unnamed soldier, as they were blown to bits by the advanced bombing technology.

The earth ponies and unicorns didn't hesitate, since the unicorns were getting dominated by artillery shells as they shot off slightly weak electro-magic pulses. If the spell makes contact with it's target, a small shock wave travels through the contact point and up through the ponies body to their heart. Once there, the electricity cause an arrhythmia as the victim collapses dead of cardiac arrest.

The fighting lasted like this for a whole five minutes, before Applejack gave the order to coat the artillery shells in deadly anthrax bacteria. The idea was barbaric in itself, but the fact that it was actually effective was terroristic. As she watched her enemies drop one by one, she couldn't help but smile at the pony she had become.

The sad truth of the matter was that most of the unicorns were still learning to use their magic. Then a small fraction of that part knew the basic combat spells, so most threw rocks. Too bad they weren't glowing green, the could've had a weapon beyond imagination.

The pegasi were at a tactical advantage, as the only troops still on the ground were technology geeks from Ponasia, who had no other skills whatsoever, with the exception of walking, breathing,eating, going to the bathroom, and writing books on how not to impress women. Anyways, all of the others took to the sky in no sort of formation. The earth ponies' artillery shells couldn't hope to hit the evasive pegasi. Meanwhile the unicorns' tactic of using their magic to take them down was quite effective, especially when they were crashing down towards the earth pony army. As soon as the descending dead carcass made contact with anypony, the under-belly bombs detonated and had a blast radius of around 15 feet.

Fluttershy couldn't help but take notice of the quaking ground from her place in her underground imprisonment.

"Oh dear, oh dear..." repeated Fluttershy, over and over, "If only they would've held off for just a few more hours, I could've busted out of this living hell..."

Fluttershy was right in her judgement of the prison. Conditions there didn't exactly meet the living standard of anypony, even Bobo the gay hobo. She was fed on food scraps that remained from Rainbow Dash's nightly feasts. These mostly included saturated mashed potatoes, moldy cheese, apple cores and peach pits.

"They have no idea who in Equestria they are dealing with," muttered Fluttershy to herself.

As Fluttershy plotted her escape, up above ground, the war raged onwards. It truly was a three way deadlock. Nopony was winning, but everypony was losing. The day was about to come to an end, and nopony wanted to fight in the dark. At least the generals had the decency to agree on a night time armistice, so that everypony could sleep in their military grade tent.

It was a very busy day in the makeshift hospitals on each side. The busiest probably being the unicorns, due to those artillery shells that sprayed shrapnel in every direction. There were over 6,000 deaths total that day, and over 15,000 injuries. Later into the night, a few more would die because of the bullet injury they received, and a severe lacking of the miracle medicine, Ponycillin. Ponycillin was a shot that basically relieved a soldier of their pain so they were able to get back in action the next day.

The generals plotted away in elaborate extra large tents, gradually planning the slow and painful deaths of their so-called enemies.

The unicorns attempted to learn new spells in an abnormally shaped, very large learning tent. Tonight's learning tent activity was a fireball spell, which is self-explanatory.

The earth ponies were sent to manufacturing tents, which were box like in structure, and huge in size. In said tent, they developed new weapons and different kinds of ammunition to use on the field of battle. Today they managed to develop a slightly more explosive artillery shell, as well as hand-held explosive launchers of projectiles, or HELP for short.

Some unicorns retreated to their massive underground base. Today, they learned how to successfully abduct somepony, and then how to torture them for information following abduction.

The sad truth of the matter is that there was not a winner. There were 3 losers battling it out to see who simply didn't lose the most. No winner goes without losing, and without making sacrifice. So far, it seems to many that there have been too many sacrifices made already, but the megalomaniacal dictators who call themselves "Generals" are willing to push the limits of their power, and are willing to do anything to come out as the best loser.

Author's Note

Let me know what you think of the story so far! And for the next two chapters, I have one about capture and torture, and then one about Fluttershy after that.